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Besides the heavy wind, Harry Truman's vacation preserve was invaded by another rude noise: a crew of workmen showed up to install a teletypewriter to handle in triplicate all the messages demanding presidential veto-or signature-for the highly volatile Kerr gas bill (see BUSINESS). Most ringing of all was a round robin from mayors of 18 principal U.S. cities urging a veto in the name of their millions of gas consumers. Harry Truman, originally reported ready to sign the bill, delayed his decision until he returned to Washington...
...party intellectual, he is a sort of lower middlebrow, whose unshakeable ideological orthodoxy is tempered with hard common sense. He is tough and abusive to his associates-perhaps the same temper that the dying Lenin found obnoxious when he wrote, before his death, that "Comrade Stalin is too rude." Malenkov uses the Russian equivalents of four-letter words, and behind his back his underlings have dubbed him "the Kremlin's turkey...
...week, the Indians could hardly wait. Because of the Tribune's rabid opposition to anything British, India's nationalists have regarded Bertie as their best American friend. At Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, the 50 newsmen who met their best friend face to face got a rude shock...
From the Middle Ages, when sticks were used to "beat the devil" out of mental patients, through the middle '30s, when electric and insulin shock therapy began, physical treatment of the insane relied on rude methods. Even now, shock "cures" may be worse than the disease: they often fail to cure, and sometimes the patient breaks a jaw or crushes his backbone in violent, convulsive spasms...
...Catholic faith which Blanshard claims to respect. "It just so happens to be the personal belief of every Catholic that Almighty God, through Jesus Christ, empowered the hierarchy to apply moral judgments to all areas of human conduct, social as well as private. One of the rude errors of this whole thing is the impression that the bishops are herding the people around. People are Catholics because they believe the bishops have that authority. That's one of the reasons they want to be Catholics, to have something to stand for in a world that's coming apart...